Big Pharma is hurting the NHS at its core – here's what we need to do, if we're bold enough.
Nigel Farage is using his experience of testicular cancer to condemn the NHS. A fellow survivor - now a doctor - takes the UKIP leader to task.
Corporate think tanks hope their bravely unthinkable suggestions to "fix" (or kill) the NHS are on politicians' summer reading lists. But why are far more popular and evidenced solutions - like reversing privatisation - so unthinkable to the political class?
Is compassion being crowded out of the NHS by the language and values of consumer capitalism?
Roger Taylor's book has a welcome emphasis on quality and culture but lacks political context - and reads too much into data.
A new online think tank, the Centre for Health and the Public Interest, has just launched. It aims to make the practical and intellectual case for a radical change of course from the market solutions currently proffered to the English NHS.
A&E departments across London are already overstretched - but nearly half of them are now threatened with closures, and undermined by privatisation. This Saturday, hospital campaigners from across London join up to march on Downing Street.
Join Save our Hospital campaigners from across London for a day of action aginst the biggest threats to London's NHS for a generation. The rally assembles from 12noon, Jubilee Gardens.
The people of Lewisham are on the march, to save their hospital and to secure the future of our NHS. This five minute video captures Lewisham's proud history of protest and highlights from their campaign, including the day a 'buggy army' went to 'Hunt the Hunt'...
On 24th April the House of Lords voted through the NHS ‘section 75’ regulations, which open up the NHS to far more private sector competition. The overwhelming opposition from grassroots campaigners and NHS workers fell, ultimately, on deaf ears. So where do we go from here?
